Host, Heath Painter realized a whole new world when he began hunting with a camera. Wildlife photography quickly over took him and he enrolled in classes at the Ohio Institute of Photography.
After two years of study, he transferred to the North Carolina School of arts, Film Tech Program. Here, Heath developed his film making skills. Heath has worked on motion picture films, large commercial shoots and all types of TV productions. In 1995, he left the corporate film world to start Wildeyes Productions.
Through Wildeyes, Heath has worked as a freelance camera man and field producer for top-rated outdoor shows on TNN, ESPN and The Outdoor Channel. Heath Painter’s experience as a bow hunter and motion picture cameraman has made him one of the top-rated free-lance field producers in the outdoor industry.
For 15 years Lennis Janzen has successfully designed and manufactured specialized hunting equipment. Growing up on the vast 270,000 acre, game-rich Tejon Ranch in California, Lennis developed a passion for hunting and wildlife. Lennis understands that hunters rely heavily on their gear for success and sometimes for survival.
This understanding allows Crooked Horn Outfitters to continually seek and design the best gear available. Lennis is no stranger to outdoor television and has appeared as a guest host/hunter on shows such as Christensen Arms, Eastman’s Journal, Majestic Outdoors and The Hunter’s Journal.
As our resident gear specialist, Lennis will search out and select the best products to showcase to our viewers each week. By showing hunting gear in actual hunting situations he will demonstrate how having the right gear can make your hunt more enjoyable and successful.
Doyle Moss
Moss Back Productions Specialty: Big Game Specialist
Doyle has a history of state and world class trophy animals and is strictly a trophy guide. Doyle has been guiding professionally for the past 16 years with the best and most reputable outfitters in the United States. With the outfitters current management programs, MossBack hunts for the largest animals they have to offer. Along with guiding those hunts, he always packs his camera and captures them on video. MossBack offers a professional outfit all over the western states and offers auction and government tags along with high dollar permits.
Darren Collins
Double “D” Outfitters Specialty: Elk Specialist
Double D Outfitters is a world wide booking agent and outfitter in Arizona. Our company was established in 1998 and has been going strong ever sense.
Darin & Derek have been hunting for over 40 years combined and have mastered the art of Elk hunting, which is our specialty. We branched out and brought on board Guide Tom Sissom who runs our marketing department and also edits our video's for each client who hunts with us. We own and operate "Elk Ridge Videos" which allows us to video your hunt and give you a copy so you can always treasure your hunting time with us.
Besides Elk, we also specialize in Big Horn sheep hunting which is in our own backyard, only 15 minutes away. We have spent a lot of time on the Arizona Strip and Kaibab where some of the largest Mule deer are hunted. You will see the world record Antelope in our gallery where Darin helped take with another guide from Arizona. We have many animals, which have made both Boone & Crockett and SCI Books, and many Archery kills which made the Pope and Young Book.
Dan Evans
Trophy Taker Specialty: Archery Specialist
Trophy Taker was founded by hardcore bowhunting elk fanatic, Dan Evans back in 1998. Since that time, our commitment to quality and rugged design has kept us at the forefront of the fall-away arrow rest movement. Dan's species of choice is Rocky Mountain Elk and he spends most of each bowhunting season chasing them around in the western states. Dan is fanatical about dependability of the equipment that he shoots and about accuracy in the field and the results speak for themselves. Few, if any, archers have had the success on monster bulls that Dan has enjoyed and best of all, nearly every bull he has killed has been on public land, self guided hunts. We leave nothing to chance at Trophy Taker in the equipment we sell, shoot on our own bows and take to the field.
Chris Sanford
Piston Point Broadheads Specialty: Archery Specialist
Piston Point Broadheads, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 by lifelong bowhunter Chris G. Sanford. Chris started shooting a bow at a very young age and now has over 28 years of bowhunting experience in Canada, Alaska, and the lower 48 states. With over 20 trophies listed in the Pope and Young Record Book, Chris brings a tremendous amount of archery expertise to the industry.
As a veteran bowhunter, Sanford ventured into manufacturing after seeing the need for an expandable broadhead that consistently delivered excellent results in a wide variety of shooting conditions. He was determined to design a broadhead hunters could trust to bring down big game animals, as well as deer and other less sizable animals. Over the past nine years, he utilized his extensive hunting and archery expertise to develop many different prototypes aimed at helping archery hunters improve the odds of harvesting the animals they work so hard to pursue. Through thousands of tests and finessing the design, he engineered a true "rear expanding" broadhead that is revolutionizing the bowhunting industry - and more importantly - increasing the odds of hunters successfully harvesting their game.
After submitting numerous patents in 2006 and 2007, Piston Point's revolutionary "Hammer Impact" technology was unveiled at the January 2007 Archery Trade Association's (ATA) Annual Trade Show in Atlanta, Georgia. Following the show, a number of outdoor writers selected Piston Point Broadheads as the "Best New Product" at the show. The feedback received since this unveiling has been tremendous and Piston Point looks forward to helping hunters around the globe bring down the trophies of their dreams.
David Bloch
Outdoor Edge Knives Specialty: Cutlery Specialist
Dave personally develops and field tests each product on a variety of game to ensure the highest performance and stands behind everything Outdoor Edge makes with a Lifetime Warranty. The goal of Outdoor Edge is to combine functional design with the sharpest, best edge holding steels, state of the art production processes and hand craftsmanship to create the finest quality knives and hand tools for the big game hunter.
Eben Brown
E. Arthur Brown Co., Inc. Specialty: Gun & Firearm Specialist
E. Arthur Brown Company (EABCO) made a name for itself building world championship winning handguns for 200 meter silhouette competition. This proven falling block design was a natural to evolve into a classic hunting rifle and the Model 97D Single Shot was born. Building upon their single shot expertise, they began making custom Accuracy Barrels for the TC Encore and their reputation for rifle accuracy in the main stream hunting market began to take off. Nowadays, EABCO manufactures an assortment of Standard Accuracy Barrels along with a full line of custom riflestocks, scope mounts, muzzle brakes, ammunition, and accuracy accessories for the TC Encore. They are at the leading edge of new product development and innovation... marketing items from many other companies as well as their own. See everything on their website at www.eabco.com.
Jon Edwards
Schnee’s Boots Specialty: Boot Specialsit
Schnee’s is a complete hunting outfitter offering top quality gear and footwear specializing in western big game hunting. Located in Bozeman, Montana and offering three ways to service the hunting customer including 2 retail stores, free 72-page catalog and on-line shopping at schnees.com.
Roaming the hills of Eastern Idaho as a boy led Cade to love and appreciate all things wild. It is no surprise that this love led him to a career as a Wildlife Biologist currently covering Idaho, Utah, and Nevada for Pheasants Forever (www.pheasantsforever.org). Don’t let the birds fool you though, as Cade is a passionate western big game hunter having hunted from Alaska to Old Mexico. As our new Big Game Specialist, he will bring 20 years of fair chase pursuit with gun and bow to our viewers. He will combine his knowledge of animals; their habits, biology, tendencies, and habitat needs with his love of wild places to help “take our viewers there”. Cade still lives in Eastern Idaho with his beautiful wife and 4 daughters.
Jim Barta
V.P. Hunter Safety System Co. Specialty: Safety Specialist
Hunter Safety system continues to take treestand safety into the 21st century with its entire line of products. Treestand accidents account for more hunting injuries and deaths than any other hunting-related accident. But just as bows, arrows, broadheads and other hunting items have advanced, so too has the treestand safety harness. Hunter Safety System’s vest/harness is lightweight, easy to put on and comfortable to wear. Still, that’s only a few reasons why almost every professional hunter, outdoor writer and TV personality is wearing Hunter Safety System. Where all their other hunting products are about “performance,” Hunter Safety System is about “Saving Lives!” Don’t let your next hunt be your last, wear a Hunter Safety System. For contact information, call 877-296-3528 or go to www.huntersafetysystem.com.
